The Campaign For Better Namesakes (cfubbun)

The problem

What happens when you put your first name into Google and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky"? Chances are, your website doesn't come up. It'd be a bit egotistical to expect that unless you're Neil Gaiman or something. But it could at least be someone you don't mind being associated with.

Is Google giving your name a bad name? If so, start a cfubbun campaign by picking someone else to represent YOU on the intarweb.

How can I help cfubbun?

Below is a list of authorised cfubbun nominations. If you have a site or a blog that Google crawls, link to them with the name in the link text. Link to cfubbun too if you're really keen.

What's in it for me?

Send me your nomination (via the webmaster address on my contact page) and I'll list it below. If enough people make nominations that there are any conflicts, we can figure out some way of sorting that out to avoid splitting the vote where possible.

googlebot first hit this page at 02:25 GMT on the 24th June, so we're underway!

Do you have any T-shirts, posters, or mouse-mats I can buy?

No.

Authorised cfubbun nominees

• Alan Turing for "Alan number one" (already first)
• Alexander von Humboldt for "Alexander number one" (currently seventh on google.com, needs your links. First on google.de!)
• Annie Hall for "Annie number one" (currently third, needs your links)
• Brandon Lee for "Brandon number one" (currently nowhere, needs your links)
• Chris Carter for "Chris number one" (currently nowhere, needs your links)
• Agatha Christie for "Christie number one" (currently fifth, needs your links)
• Daniel Bernoulli for "Daniel number one" (currently twenty-first, needs your links)
• Daniel Johnston for "Daniel number one" (currently tenth, needs your links)
• David Bowie for "David number one" (already first. I wonder whether we could get him to top hit for "God").
• Ellen DeGeneres for "Ellen number one" (currently fifth in the UK, third in the US, needs your links)
• Queen Elizabeth I for "Elizabeth number one" (already first)
• Jessica McClintock (or anyone but Simpson) for "Jessica number one" (currently second, needs your links)
• Julia Set for "Julia number one" (currently seventh, needs your links)
• Lamb Rogan Josh for "Josh number one" (currently thirty-sixth, needs your links)
• Kaolin Fire for "Kaolin number one" (currently twenty-first, needs your links)
• Larry David for "Larry number one" (currently nowhere, needs your links)
• Mark Knopfler for "Mark number one" (currently fifteenth, needs your links)
• Murray Barton for "Murray number one" (currently nowhere, needs your links)
• Sarah Bernhardt for "Sarah number one" (currently nowhere, needs your links)
• Sarah Vowell for "Sarah number one" (currently twenty-seventh, needs your links)
• Scott Adams for "Scott number one" (currently second, needs your links)
• Steve Jackson for "Steve number one" (currently second, needs your links)
• Tim Berners-Lee for "Tim number one" (currently second, needs your links)
• Trent Reznor for "Trent number one" (currently fourth, needs your links)

One last thing

Google will, according to their business plan, own the entire planet by 2012. So, in the hope that they won't throw me in prison at or before that time for "crimes against information", I'd like to point out that I am not advocating any kind of automated link spamming or stuff of that nature. Oh no sirree. Just create a genuine link to a genuine site of someone who happens to share your first name, or the first name of someone you know, or the first name of another cfubbun campaigner who has made a nomination.